[ecrea] Media and Politics Group conference, UEA, Nov 08

>MPG Annual Conference CFP
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>Media and Politics Group Annual Conference
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>University of East Anglia
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>6th & 7th November 2008
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>Media, Security and Religion
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>Call for Papers
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>The annual conference of the Political Studies 
>Association's Media and Politics Specialist 
>Group invites submissions for this conference on 
>the relationship between security, religion and 
>representations of this within contemporary media.
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>Contemporary discourse tends to characterise 
>security concerns in the language of 
>religion.  According to politicians, media and 
>an increasing number of academics, the 
>resurgence of religion as a major actor in 
>domestic and international politics, especially 
>in its fundamentalist expressions in Islam and 
>Christianity, has profound security implications 
>as most obviously espoused in domestic and foreign policy making.
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>At a time when political ideological divisions 
>are less prominent, it can be suggested that 
>religion now forms the 'other' in political 
>discourse.  In this way, political conflict is 
>not between, for example, the ideas of Marx and 
>Adam Smith, but between followers of Darwin, 
>Mohammed and Jesus, and for some this might 
>suggest a return to a kind of pre-Enlightenment thinking.
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>The role of religious actors as protagonists 
>and/or mediators in the war on terror has been 
>variously developed, sustained and challenged by 
>media coverage. The conference is themed around 
>this discourse, which suggests a linkage of 
>security with religion, and is also concerned to 
>explore the role of the modern media in the 
>re-presentation and construction in this process.
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>All ideas relating to the above three topics are 
>welcome.  In order to reflect the breadth, 
>diversity and potential overlap between these 
>three areas paper proposals are invited around 
>(but not restricted to) the following general themes which might include:
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>The secularisation of the British press
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>The linkage of religion to security concerns
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>The influence of security and religion in policy making
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>Coverage of the Middle East
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>The political rhetoric of religion
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>Media coverage of the Iraq war and/or opposition to it
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>Media portrayals of religious identity
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>The discursive linkage of security concerns and religion
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>The construction of Islamic identity
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>Christian Media and Islamophobia
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>Roundtable:
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>Chair - Dominic Wring, Loughbrough
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>Discussants
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>Richard Jackson, Aberystwyth
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>John Street, UEA
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>The annual James Thomas Memorial Prize will be 
>awarded at this event to the best postgraduate paper submission.
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>It is intended that a selection of papers from 
>the conference can be included in an edited volume in agreement with Ashgate.
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>Please send abstracts of around 250 words to 
>either Heather Savigny (h.savigny /at/ uea.ac.uk) or 
>Lee Marsden (l.marsden /at/ uea.ac.uk) by Monday 21st April 2008
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>Informal enquiries also welcome.
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